GUIDED BY VOICES - GLAD GIRLS

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Get You High
by R.C. Avellanosa 

You can't leave out "Glad Girls". It's one of their best songs. Stand and roll around the floor, shake your brains or jump and do the Superman pose. It's Guided By Voices ladies and gentleman and it's good the girls are glad. At some point, somewhere somehow, clouds form smiles. Buses and trucks roll in, as birds dance, flew over the sun on cities powdered by industries. Men on coffee shops and offices, dressed with forlorn, walking passing through sexy, jumping, dancing figures wondering what the hell they're doing here.

This should be the Australian release. I'd say the "Glad Girls" version here is quite the same as what's found on Isolation Drills. One true GBV fan could point out if I'm mistaken. This is neat and brilliant for a GBV follower. This should be around in one of your collection. "On With The Show", lines appeared on "Blimps Go 90", is the third longer track. "North American Vampires" lasted almost only a minute, with words about sensitive Einsteins and a crusty New Waver. River of statistics, shitheads and growing bank accounts, Pollard says "on with the show!"

Song Feature: GLAD GIRLS



Publisher
Needmore Songs

Songwriter
Robert Pollard

Line-up
Robert Pollard
Doug Gillard
Nate Farley
Tim Tobias
Jim Macpherson

Words:
Hey, glad girls only want to get you high
And they're alright

There will be no coronation
There will be no flowers flowing
In the light that passes though me

Hey, glad girls only want to get you high
And they're alright

There will be no graduation
There will be no trumpets blowing
In the light that passes through me

With the sinking of the sun
I've come to greet you
Clean your hands and go to sleep
Confess the dreams
Of good and bad men all around
Some are lost
And some have found
The light that passes though me

Notes on GLAD GIRLS by Gawdam Adam

"The dumbing down of America has been avoided, because the words “hip” and “hop” have not been put together.  Mouseketeers end up working at McDonalds after their run is up with Mickey. The phrase “the next step in reality television” has never, nor ever will be muttered. Movies about football players starring ex-teen stars directed by washed up sitcom stars are outlawed. EVERYTHING smells and tastes like the beautiful flower of an untouched goddess.  And Glad Girls is the anthem of a generation. Oh, and I’m the supreme ruler of all and people bow to my every need and desire. That about does it."

 

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GUIDED BY VOICES - PLUGS FOR THE PROGRAM

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Program Profound
by R.C. Avellanosa 

One can't say the accurate number of records the Guided By Voices have. One can only try to listen and pass it on. You'd be amazed on how prolific Robert Pollard is as a songwriter and a performer. Sprout, Gillard and almost each of them have played with other bands with obscure names and records. They circle in and out of the band. Past, side and solo projects flooded through. There's Circus Devils, Cosmos, Gem and Boston Spaceships to name a few. But let us go back to the program.

Plugs For The Program is a special EP exclusively for Newberry comics and TVT, whatever that is. Another one of those GBV's limited editions, were apparently sold for $2.99 on some locations. There are three tracks on this EP. One of them which is Track one, "a non LP version", is my favorite "Surgical Focus" which is wonderfully remixed. It starts with a killer guitar intro. It is one of those four versions of this song. Backed up with "Sucker of Pistol City" and a demo version of "Picture of Big Time". And I, The Soundtripper, end this up by singing "I will deliver to yooooo hooo, yeah!"

Highlight
SURGICAL FOCUS (remix)

Line-up:
Robert Pollard
Doug Gillard
Jim Macpherson
Greg Demos

Production:
Mixing - Lou Giordano
Producer - Ric Ocasek

Words:
With surgical focus
She stared at me and said
I'm willing to reach out
Get in to your head
And I will keep you
and cleanse you
She glared at me and wept
A change is not going to hurt you
Not this time

And I've been waiting in line for this
Now that it's taken forever
I insist

 

Until I get it, I can't breathe
Climbing high upon the rocky cliffs
We fly
With surgical focus

Notes on SURGICAL FOCUS by thezestofyore & zazeify

"This song is so good it hurts. The true mark of a versatile song. You could play most of Bob's stuff, underwater, backwards and they would still rock."

 

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GUIDED BY VOICES - SURGICAL FOCUS (SINGLE)

Tracks:
01. Surgical Focus
02. Fly Into Ashes

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GUIDED BY VOICES - ISOLATION DRILLS

Tracks:
01. Fair Touching
02. Skills Like This
03. Chasing Heather Crazy
04. Frostman
05. Twilight Campfighter
06. Sister, I Need Wine
07. Want One
08. The Enemy
09. Unspirited
10. Glad Girls
11. Run Wild
12. Pivotal Film
13. How's My Drinking
14. The Brides Have Hit Glass
15. Fine to See You
16, Privately

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GUIDED BY VOICES - HOLD ON HOPE (EP)

Tracks:
01. Underground Initiations
02. Interest Position
03. Fly Into Ashes
04. Tropical Robots
05. A Crick Uphill
06. Idiot Princess
07. Avalanche Aminos
08. Do The Collapse
09. Hold On Hope

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GUIDED BY VOICES - DO THE COLLAPSE

Tracks:
01. Teenage FBI
02. Zoo Pie
03. Things I Will Keep
04. Hold On Hope
05. In Stitches
06. Dragons Awake
07. Surgical Focus
08. Optical Hopscotch
09. Mushroom Art
10. Much Better Mr. Buckles
11. Wormhole
12. Strumpet Eye
13. Liquid Indian
14. Wrecking Now
15. Picture Me Big Time
16. An Unmarketed Product

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